String Cosmology: The Pre-Big Bang Scenario

Abstract

A review is attempted of physical motivations, theoretical and phenomenological aspects, as well as outstanding problems, of the pre-big bang scenario in string cosmology.

46 pages, 8 Figures, Latex, Lectures delivered in Les Houches, July 1999

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• Gravitational Wave Experiments and Early Universe Cosmology
• A Covariant Entropy Conjecture
• Duality and Dilaton
• Holography, Cosmology and the Second Law of Thermodynamics
• Cosmology vs. Holography
• Pre-bangian origin of our entropy and time arrow
• D-branes and Cosmology
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• O(d,d)-invariant collapse/inflation from colliding superstring waves

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